Topics included are the mathematics and metrology of the universe; world geography and ethnography; human anthropology and physiology; zoology; botany, agriculture, and horticulture; medicine; minerals, fine arts, and gemstones.

    It aims to furnish the reader with a clear understanding of the means available for improving the heredity of farm animals, especially what each possible method will or will not do well. Highly recommended for modern farmers and animal breeders. Contents include: "Origin and Domestication of Farm Animals", "Consequences of Domestication", "Beginning of Pedigree Breeding Methods in the United States", "History of Animal Breeding Methods in the United States", "Relation of the Breed Association to Breed Improvement", "Genetic Principles in Animal Breeding", "Mendelian Basis of Inheritance", etc. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new introduction on farming.

    A leader in the treatment and prevention of mental illness, Karl Augustus Menninger, along with his family founded one of the world's most renowned psychiatric clinics in his hometown of Topeka, Kansas. The distinguished Menninger, often called the dean of American psychiatry was also a best-selling author whose landmark books, The Human Mind and Man Against Himself, celebrated the need for individuals to have self-respect and self-understanding and introduced psychiatry to a vast audience. Contents: Principles: Introductory Section, Dealing with Modern Conceptions of Mind and Health: Personalities: Synthetic Section, Dealing with the External Appearances of the Assembled Machine in Action and Particularly in Disaster; Symptoms: Analytic Section, Dealing with the Parts of the Machine, Dismantled; Motives: Dynamic Section, Dealing with the Sources and Distribution of the Power that Drives the Machine; Treatments: Pragmatic Section, Dealing with the Technique of Repairs; and Applications: Philosophic Section, Dealing with Extensions of Psychiatric Theory.